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"Mr President, I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur, Mrs Balzani, on the report that she has presented to us.
The budget is, indeed, the basic, fundamental tool that supports all EU policies – common agricultural policy, cohesion policy, research policy and foreign policy. They would be meaningless without a budget to back them up.
Commissioner, this is why today more than ever, at a time of crisis, we need a strong budget that answers the needs that we face at present. Therefore, we ask you to allocate resources to fundamental programmes such as employment programmes and youth training programmes or to the programme that has been torn to shreds by the Court of Justice, the most deprived persons programme.
We would also ask the Council to stop thinking like an accountant and put on its politician’s hat for once, and not to do its calculations by trying to work out how to cut back on payments, because we could end up in the Court of Justice given that, as you have reminded us Commissioner Lewandowski, the payments are legal obligations deriving from pre-existing commitments. Otherwise, we simply will not be able to meet them."@en1
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